LaCie Little Big Disk 200GB

[Chris Gohlke]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/17/review_lacie_little_big_drive_200gb/' target='_blank'>http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/17/review_lacie_little_big_drive_200gb/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"With a high storage capacity for a portable drive and integrated RAID 0 to boost Firewire 800 performance, but with a steep asking price and a chunky, weighty metal carapace, LaCie's Little Big Disk is aptly named. For consumers and notebook users in business, it may prove insufficiently little in size and priced too big. But for performance-hungry professionals, it has plenty to offer in its compact, industrial-looking casing."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/lacie_lbd_1.jpg" /><br /><br />I agree, performance-wise, this is pretty cool looking, but for the price I'd think they could put some larger drives in here. Being that this device contains 2 drives, 200 GB is really pretty anemic.

[mcsouth]

The reason that the device only has 200 GB across two drives is that it is using 2.5" laptop drives - they currently don't come much bigger than 120GB, although I believe Seagate is shipping a 160GB drive, although it is only a 5400 rpm drive. So it kinda comes down to being a very small Raid 0 external drive with two zippy 100GB drives........I will agree that I don't really see the point. Buy an external hard drive enclosure, stick in a 3.5" 400GB drive, and I suspect the weight will be about the same, although the dimensions will probably be a bit bigger.